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A Columbus man was shot in an East Side parking lot on Friday night and died a few hours later,
police said.

Dawann J.H. Wright, 27, was in the parking lot of the Pine Grove apartment complex just before 8
p.m. when he was shot. He ran to a friend's apartment at 2031 Pine Needle Ct., where police found
him, said Sgt. Dana Norman of the Columbus police homicide squad.

Wright, whose most-recent address was not available, was taken to Grant Medical Center in stable
condition but died a few hours later.

On Friday night, neighbors said they'd seen Wright with two other men just before the shooting.
Yesterday, however, no one at the complex appeared to know much about what might have happened.

"Shooting is normal out here," said AnnaLee, who would give only her first name because she said
she feared retaliation.

Norman said investigators don't know why the shooting occurred, and no one has been
arrested.

Pine Grove is the same apartment complex where another homicide occurred less than two months
ago. On March 30, two men were shot in a home invasion there. That shooting took the life of
Maurice Bryant and wounded another man.